Over 20 years of taking live music, played to concert standards, into special schools.
Taking live music safely to patients and staff in NHS hospitals – started as a response to the Covid pandemic.
In partnership with the University of Oxford Faculty of Music and working with a multi-cultural group of students at Oxford Spires Academy, the project explores the power of music to break down cultural barriers while providing a platform for the expression of cultural identity.
Heart to Heart is an acclaimed Korean youth orchestra for musicians with developmental difficulties. It has a commitment to enhance social inclusion for all people with disabilities. Postponed due to Covid, we hope soon to host Heart to Heart musicians for 3 days of music-making and concerts alongside OSJ’s musicians
We welcome suggestions for new creative initiatives and partnerships. If you have an idea that you would like to propose to us, please do get in touch.
In the meantime, please watch this space for our next major project!
A co-creative composition and performance project which, through a combination of poetry and music, aims to amplify the voices and experiences of young forced migrants and refugees living in the UK.
An ongoing partnership between OSJ and ANIM which saw OSJ arrange and host a residency, in Oxford and London, for the Afghan Women’s Orchestra in 2019, and which continues with an ongoing programme of Distance Learning for ANIM students provided by OSJ’s musicians.
New music commissioned by OSJ and recorded in collaboration with experimental music duo Limpet Space Race in response to the latest research by Oxford University scientists working on the effects of climate change on issues of water security in different parts of the world.
